NER Out Loud

New England Review
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NER Out Loud animates stories and poetry with vocal performances, celebrating the artistic exchange between text and voice. NER Out Loud is the official podcast of the New England Review

  1. Episode 29: Jehanne Dubrow

    12/05/2024

    Episode 29: Jehanne Dubrow

    Jehanne Dubrow reads from and discusses her essay "Red Monsters," about Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, bisexuality, and how hybrid literatures can teach us to face the monstrous parts of ourselves. Like the essay, her conversation with podcast hosts Hamilton Smith and Sydney Smith ranges over the topics of literary analysis, personal narrative, theater camp, and mythology. "Red Monsters" appears in in NER 45.3.

    35 min
  2. Episode 28: Trudy Lewis

    10/15/2024

    Episode 28: Trudy Lewis

    Host Charlotte Roberts chats with author and professor Trudy Lewis about Lewis’s short story, "Morado." Set in a fictional seed research institute in Kansas, "Morado" explores what it means to queer both our own bodies and the natural world in order to survive. Featured throughout the episode are three brief excerpts from the story, read by the author. "Morado" was originally published in NER 45.2 (summer 2024).

    34 min
  3. Episode 27: Soje

    08/26/2024

    Episode 27: Soje

    Hosted by Hamilton Smith and Sydney Smith, episode 27 features Soje reading their translations of Song Seung Eon's "To Dig in the Forest" and "Twisted Landscape Inside a Kind Heart," followed by a brief conversation. Soje's reading of the poems, in both Korean and English, is met with a deep inquiry of translation's potential to effect radical change. Soje's translations appear in NER's Korean Poetry Feature, titled "Where on Earth Did You Come From?—Seven South Korean Poets and Their Translators" of NER 45.2.

    36 min
  4. Episode 26: Caridad Svich

    03/19/2024

    Episode 26: Caridad Svich

    A reading from the play "Clara Thomas Bailey," followed by a conversation between Katie Futterman and playwright Caridad Svich. Maya Bargdorf, Rowan Heffelfinger, and Kate Ryan read an excerpt of "Clara Thomas Bailey," a play by Caridad Svich published in NER 44.3. After the reading, podcast host Katie Futterman talks to Svich about how she came to write plays, her approach to audience, and the multiple anxieties that influence this play. "Clara Thomas Bailey" is a portrait-in-motion that takes place over the course of one hour in a person's life—and hour that spans years of feeling. It is a figure in three, or a triptych.

    46 min
  5. Episode 25: Joan Leegant

    11/06/2023

    Episode 25: Joan Leegant

    Hosted by Gavin Richards and Cali Jantzen, this episode features Joan Leegant reading an excerpt of her story "Wild Animals," followed by a short interview. The conversation explores the volatile nature of family, Leegant's unique syntax, loyalty to the sentence, the writer as an "unconscious" medium, and the author's advice on discovering one's own process. "Wild Animals" was first published in NER 44.2 (summer 2023).

    35 min
  6. Episode 24: Nessa O'Mahony

    08/17/2023

    Episode 24: Nessa O'Mahony

    Irish poet Nessa O'Mahony reads her poem "Cillín," published in NER 44.2, followed by an interview with summer interns Cali Jantzen and Gavin Richards. Their discussion traverses the “hidden histories” of Ireland, the politics of memory, and the role of poetry in reckoning with the past. The poem appears in NER's special feature "The Door Left Wide: Poets in Tribute to Eavan Boland."

    36 min
  7. Episode 23: El Williams III

    06/08/2023

    Episode 23: El Williams III

    El Williams III reads his poem "There Was a Brood," followed by an interview with Yardena Carmi. Their discussion explores writing about place and personal experience, as well as the poet's inspirations for this piece, which turns car trouble, summer heat, and a brood of cicadas into poetry.

    27 min
  8. Episode 22: Katie Moulton

    01/26/2023

    Episode 22: Katie Moulton

    Katie Moulton reads an excerpt from her essay "The Elvis Room" (NER 43.3), followed by a conversation with host, Becca Clark. The author discusses her writing and editing processes, memorializing her dad, her family's fascination with Elvis Presley, and more.

    33 min
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NER Out Loud animates stories and poetry with vocal performances, celebrating the artistic exchange between text and voice. NER Out Loud is the official podcast of the New England Review

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  • Creator
    New England Review
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
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